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Considering Travel Vaccines As We Approach World Immunization Week

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April 24-30 is World Immunization Week – a week that aims to promote the life-saving power of immunization to protect people of all ages from preventable diseases.  This protection is offered to both those living in countries where preventable diseases are prevalent and those who travel to those areas, countries and regions.  In this instance, protection is through the form of travel vaccinations.

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Travel Vaccination Facts for International Fact-Checking Day

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April 2 marks International Fact-checking Day – a day on which to focus on the facts and not on misinformation.  It is also perhaps one on which we should concentrate on putting as much data behind factual-information as possible, with the assistance of 21st century ways of doing things, such as the advanced Pinpoint Travel Health vaccine and antimalarial planning service.

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Travel Vaccination and Malaria Treatment Planning For Commonwealth Travel

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Monday March 10 marks Commonwealth Day, which will be celebrated across the Commonwealth, comprising 56 independent countries, inhabited by 2.7 billion people. Encompassing some of the richest and poorest countries in the world, the Commonwealth also features countries in which diseases are rife. Holiday or business trip planning for travel to many of these nations often requires travel vaccination or antimalarial treatments.

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How to Simplify Travel Vaccination and Antimalarial Planning

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March 3 marks Simplify Your Life Day – a day in the calendar that is all about offering easy tips and tricks to allow us all to live a simpler life.  Given that the Pinpoint Travel Health system is all about simplifying the travel vaccination and antimalarial pre-trip planning process, we thought we should get reference this day and hopefully help simplify the lives of more people.

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Safari Vaccination and Malaria Advice for African Wildlife Holidays

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It’s 65 years since the ‘Born Free’ novel detailed Joy Adamson’s true-life story of raising Elsa the lion cub, in Kenya.  That book, the subsequent movie and then the Meryl Streep epic, ‘Out of Africa’, all helped create a desire to head to the African savanna and live the safari dream.  But if that’s your burning wish this year, what travel vaccination planning do you need to do and what malaria precautions might you need to take?

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Gap Year Guide for Those With a True ‘Carpe Diem’ Mentality

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Did you know that there is a ‘Carpe Diem Day’ on February 26?  The first known use of the phrase ‘carpe diem’ was way back in Roman times, when the poet Horace used it, in Odes 23.  For him, it was not about ‘seizing the day’ but ‘plucking the day’.  Either way, it meant living life to the full, just as thousands of gap year travellers do each year.

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Cut Out Travel Health Gambles for The Gambia

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Looking for somewhere different to go on holiday this year, to perhaps escape a situation where you feel unwanted in Spain, or maybe to just find some guaranteed sunshine and lovely warm temperatures?  If that’s the case, and you still want to keep within a fairly modest budget, The Gambia may well catch your eye.  With TUI, Thomas Cook, Love Holidays, First Choice and many others all offering packaged holidays to The Gambia, it may well be on the radar, but what travel health considerations will you find here, perhaps differing widely from those required for the Costas?

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Cholera, Typhoid and Other Diseases in Kipling’s Time and India Today

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On December 30, 1865, Rudyard Kipling – best known perhaps for being the author who produced the works on which Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’ were based – was born in Mumbai. Life for Kipling was not just a fantasy world with colourful characters, however.  Nineteenth century, colonial India, came with a distinct cholera and typhoid threat – severe travel health risks that still exist today, for those who go unvaccinated on trips to India.

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